asterisk announce - Jul 2008 - AST-2008-010: Asterisk IAX 'POKE' resource exhaustion

Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-010

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   |       Product        | Asterisk                                        |
   |----------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
   |       Summary        | Asterisk IAX 'POKE' resource exhaustion     
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   |----------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
   |  Nature of Advisory  | Denial of service                               |
   |----------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
   |    Susceptibility    | Remote Unauthenticated Sessions                 |
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   |       Severity       | Critical                                        |
   |----------------------+-------------------------------------------------|
   |    Exploits Known    | Yes                                             |
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   |     Reported On      | July 18, 2008                                   |
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   |     Reported By      | Jeremy McNamara < jj AT nufone DOT net >      
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   |      Posted On       | July 22, 2008                                   |
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   |   Last Updated On    | July 22, 2008                                   |
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   |   Advisory Contact   | Tilghman Lesher < tlesher AT digium DOT com > 
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   |       CVE Name       | CVE-2008-3263                                   |
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   | Description | By flooding an Asterisk server with IAX2 'POKE'      
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   |             | requests, an attacker may eat up all call numbers        |
   |             | associated with the IAX2 protocol on an Asterisk server  |
   |             | and prevent other IAX2 calls from getting through. Due   |
   |             | to the nature of the protocol, IAX2 POKE calls will      |
   |             | expect an ACK packet in response to the PONG packet sent |
   |             | in response to the POKE. While waiting for this ACK      |
   |             | packet, this dialog consumes an IAX2 call number, as the |
   |             | ACK packet must contain the same call number as was      |
   |             | allocated and sent in the PONG.                          |
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   | Resolution | The implementation has been changed to no longer allocate |
   |            | an IAX2 call number for POKE requests. Instead, call      |
   |            | number 1 has been reserved for all responses to POKE      |
   |            | requests, and ACK packets referencing call number 1 will  |
   |            | be silently dropped.                                      |
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|Commentary|This vulnerability was reported to us without exploit code, less
than two days before public release, with exploit    |
|          |code. Additionally, we were not informed of the public release of
the exploit code and only learned this fact from a  |
|          |third party. We reiterate that this is irresponsible security
disclosure, and we recommend that in the future,        |
|          |adequate time be given to fix any such vulnerability. Recommended
reading:                                            |
|         
|http://www.oisafety.org/guidelines/Guidelines%20for%20Security%20Vulnerability%20Reporting%20and%20Response%20V2.0.pdf|
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   |                           Affected Versions                            |
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   |             Product              |   Release   |                       |
   |                                  |   Series    |                       |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.0.x    | All versions          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.2.x    | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | 1.2.30                |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |       Asterisk Open Source       |    1.4.x    | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | 1.4.21.2              |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |         Asterisk Addons          |    1.2.x    | Not affected          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |         Asterisk Addons          |    1.4.x    | Not affected          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    Asterisk Business Edition     |    A.x.x    | All versions          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    Asterisk Business Edition     |   B.x.x.x   | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | B.2.5.4               |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    Asterisk Business Edition     |   C.x.x.x   | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | C.1.10.3              |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |           AsteriskNOW            | pre-release | All versions          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   | Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit |    0.x.x    | All versions          |
   |----------------------------------+-------------+-----------------------|
   |    s800i (Asterisk Appliance)    |    1.0.x    | All versions prior to |
   |                                  |             | 1.2.0.1               |
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   |                              Corrected In                              |
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   |                   Product                   |         Release          |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |            Asterisk Open Source             |          1.2.30          |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |            Asterisk Open Source             |         1.4.21.2         |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |          Asterisk Business Edition          |         B.2.5.4          |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |          Asterisk Business Edition          |         C.1.10.3         |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |          Asterisk Business Edition          |         C.2.0.3          |
   |---------------------------------------------+--------------------------|
   |         s800i (Asterisk Appliance)          |         1.2.0.1          |
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|Links|http://www.oisafety.org/guidelines/Guidelines%20for%20Security%20Vulnerability%20Reporting%20and%20Response%20V2.0.pdf|
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|     |http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30321/info                              
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   | Asterisk Project Security Advisories are posted at                     |
   | http://www.asterisk.org/security                                       |
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   | This document may be superseded by later versions; if so, the latest   |
   | version will be posted at                                              |
   | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-010.pdf and          |
   | http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-010.html             |
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   |                            Revision History                            |
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   |      Date       |       Editor       |         Revisions Made          |
   |-----------------+--------------------+---------------------------------|
   | July 22, 2008   | Tilghman Lesher    | Initial release                 |
   |-----------------+--------------------+---------------------------------|
   | July 22, 2008   | Tilghman Lesher    | Revised C.1 version numbers     |
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               Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2008-010
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